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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Scott,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Might be a couple of obvious points but is
the cpu file disappearing from /tmp and is it definitely called just cpu and
not cpu.something. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>If it’s disappearing from the /tmp directory
shortly after it got created then it should be getting to the server. The next
thing I’d look at is the format of your file. I’m not sure that you
can feed a file in from an external script and then get the server to check the
values, you might need to amend the script to do the threshold checking for you
and send a status in the file. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Try amending it to add a first line
containing just [green] (with the square brackets) and see if it starts showing
up.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My other thought is that it may see cpu as
a reserved column so you could try sending it in as Cpu instead of cpu. Maybe
it might even work to just drop the cpu column you currently have. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I think Xymon or BBWin may be dealing with
it differently because it is not part of the main <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>servername</span></i>.txt file.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Neil.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Scot Kreienkamp
[mailto:SKreien@la-z-boy.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 04 October 2012 14:51<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Neil Simmonds; xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Xymon] BBWin
Externals</span></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Hi Neil,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Calibri><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>That's what I thought too. That
was my first try. The client is not reporting CPU data, confirmed by the
CPU column being purple right now. But the CPU data from the external
isn't showing up.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow";color:black;font-weight:bold'>Scot
Kreienkamp</span></font></b><font color="#1f497d"><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Neil Simmonds
[mailto:Neil.Simmonds@express-gifts.co.uk] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 04, 2012
9:48 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Scot Kreienkamp<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Xymon] BBWin
Externals</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Scott,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The way I would do it is to comment out
the cpu.dll line in BBWin.cfg so that you are not running the standard CPU
test, then have your script write the file into %BBWIN%/tmp called
‘cpu’</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That should make your external script
output show up in the cpu column as if it was the normal BBWin test. If you are
already writing it into /tmp as cpu but still have the inbuilt test switched
on, that could be your problem.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Regards,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Neil.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
xymon-bounces@xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Scot Kreienkamp<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 04 October 2012 14:26<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Xymon] BBWin Externals</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hey,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Does
anyone know if it's possible to build an externals test and have it sent in
with the regular collected data with BBWin?<br>
<br>
I have a machine with a large number of cores and BBWin's CPU section is unable
to handle reporting on it. I've made an external whose output exactly
matches the CPU section of the data collected and sent to Xymon by BBWin but
I'm struggling on how to get the data sent to Xymon. When I write out the
data to a file in %BBWIN%/tmp it is sent to the Xymon server but it seems like
nothing is happening with it. Likely because the server is expecting a
full external test and I'm not sending like that. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Any
ideas?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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